1.   All his efforts had failed to halt the increase in street crime.

2.   Last year, insecticide efforts essentially failed.

3.   The Communists tried to boycott the election in the South, too, but the effort failed.

4.   These gallant efforts failed to save the light cruisers.

5.   Why did the Board of Delegates succeed where past organizing efforts had failed?

6.   Although these efforts failed to persuade the ANC to renew constitutional negotiations, both parties supported a UN plan to assist in the transition to democracy.

7.   In retrospect, it is not surprising that these efforts largely failed.

8.   For many of us, our efforts fail us and we resign ourselves to our limitations.

9.   American efforts had so far failed at getting Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to agree to a summit meeting hoped for today.

10.   An earlier attempt last year by Regent to seize control of the fund sparked a similar decline in stock prices even though the effort ultimately failed.